Hi Terry,

from a first view:

place where after the last on statement, I will see if I understand the other part.

Agnes
>I'm trying to achieve the report below:
>
>

>                      Derek                         Bob                      Angus          ...
>Inv. No.  Booked   Charged   Booked   Charged  Booked   Charged 
>_____   ______    _______   ______    _______   ______    _______
>1        0.75       0.75
>2                               6         5.5      12         11
>3        20.5       20.5                   
>...
>

>
>So I need to sum the hours worked on a job, under each invoice ID, for each employee (JobAct.Hours), versus the hours required for each (JobHeads.Quantity)
>
>First I'm getting "command contains unrecognised phrase/keyword" and I can't figure what's up.
>
>Here's my pathetic attempt at the SQL. I've come to realise that I could really do with a course on this. I can't tell how successful it is as it won't work but I'm sure it's no good.
>
>

>Select	JobAct.OurInvID,  JobHeads.JobID, JobHeads.LabourID, ;
> 		SUM( jobheads.Quantity) as Booked, SUM( jobact.hours) as Charged,  ;
> 		Labour.Text ;
>  from jobheads ;
>  Where jobheads.JobID = "RTvo" ;
>  and not EMPTY( JobAct.OurInvID) ;
>  INNER JOIN JobAct ;
>  	ON  jobheads.JobID = jobact.JobID ;
>  INNER JOIN Labour ;
>    ON  Jobheads.LabourID = Labour.ID ;
>   group by JobAct.OurInvID, jobheads.JobID, JobHeads.LabourID ,Labour.Text  ;
>   order by JobAct.OurInvID, jobheads.JobID, JobHeads.LabourID ; 
>   into cursor JobsS
>

>
>A help would be much appreciated.
>
>Terry